Irish Research Council invests €24m in ‘curiosity-driven’ research
The Irish Research Council has announced a an investment of almost €24 million in ‘curiosity-driven’ frontier research. Forty-eight projects under will be funded under the Starting & Consolidator Laureate Awards Programme.
Researchers will receive funding for cutting-edge projects equally divided across the fields of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, and social sciences. Their research areas range from new approaches to treatment for diseases such as cancers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 6G technology development, interculturalism in rural Ireland, changing storm patterns and the communication of climate science.
The Laureate programme encompasses two streams of funding, namely ‘starting’ funding for early-career researchers who are to receive €400,000 each and ‘consolidator’ funding for mid-career researchers who are to receive €600,000 each.
A Ukrainian researcher will collaborate on one of the newly awarded projects in UCD as part of the IRC’s Ukrainian Researcher Scheme. The scheme was established so that researchers from Ukraine who are arriving in Ireland due to the war could be supported by the Irish research system.
Dr Louise Callinan, director of the Irish Research Council, said: “This is the second round of Laureate funding and many of the first-round awardees will be completing their research next year. It is testament to the success of the programme that three of the first-round awardees have already gone on to receive European Research Council funding, one as part of Ireland’s first ERC Synergy grant worth €10 million. The winning projects were awarded on the basis solely of excellence, and applications were assessed through a rigorous and independent international peer-review process.”
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